Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words says the following concerning “subverting” in Acts 15:24: “ anaskeuazo, primarily, ‘to pack up baggage’ ( ana, ‘up,’ skeuos, ‘a vessel’), hence, from a military point of view, ‘to dismantle a town, to plunder,’ is used metaphorically in Acts 15:24, of unsettling or ‘subverting’ the souls of believers. The equivalent is “froward” in Deuteronomy 32:20: “And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.” Regarding the “heretick” of Titus 3:11, this “subverted” man is described as “ekstrepho” (turned inside out), perverted or corrupted. False teachers have slipped in and are devastating it from the inside out! This Greek term is rendered “overthrow” in 2 Timothy 2:18: “Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already and overthrow the faith of some,” and speaks of deceived souls who are not observing dispensational boundaries (namely, the Rapture to close the Dispensation of Grace and prevent it from combining with the prophetic program). ” The house-that is, the meeting place of the local Christian assembly-is being flipped over. In the case of “subvert” in Titus 1:11, that Greek term is “anatrepo,” or “up turning. In 2 Peter 2:6, the same word is translated “overthrow,” referring to the LORD God destroying Sodom and Gomorrah: “And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly …” (cf. The Greek word rendered “subverting” in 2 Timothy 2:14 is “katastrophe,” which is obviously the origin of our English expression “catastrophe!” In this context, it refers to verbal debates that generate more heat than light, more confusion than clarity, and thus wreck souls in the audience. In fact, that applies to the Greek and Hebrew equivalents as well. Literally, it means “to turn from beneath”-flipped or overturned. Titus 3:11: “Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.”Īnalyzing it from the English perspective, the word consists of the prefix “sub–” (beneath) and “vertere” (to turn).Titus 1:11: “Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.”. 2 Timothy 2:14: “Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.”.Acts 15:24: “Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:….”.Lamentations 3:36: “To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.”.The term appears in various forms in the King James Scriptures:
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